{"id":46492,"date":"2014-10-22T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_pope_to_visit_turkey_as_regions_christians_flee_islamic_state_perse\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:00:09","slug":"reuters_pope_to_visit_turkey_as_regions_christians_flee_islamic_state_perse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46492","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Pope to visit Turkey as region&#39;s Christians flee Islamic State persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis will travel to Turkey next month, the Vatican said on Tuesday, his first visit to the predominantly Muslim country which has become a refuge for Christians fleeing persecution by Islamic State militants in neighboring Syria and in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>During his three-day visit, the pope will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. He will also meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Istanbul-based spiritual leader of the Orthodox churches that make up the second-largest Christian church family after Roman Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Holy Father will visit Ankara and Istanbul from Nov. 28 to 30,&#8221; Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/21\/us-pope-turkey-iduskcn0ia1c520141021\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis will travel to Turkey next month, the Vatican said on Tuesday, his first visit to the predominantly Muslim country which has become a refuge for Christians fleeing persecution by Islamic State militants in neighboring Syria and in Iraq.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46492\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,200,161,426,114,659,154,155,637,108,364,34,453,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-turkey","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}